“We are working to solutions, endurable solutions, of people who have been detained here and Nauru,” Turnbull told reporters after meeting with Papua New Guinea’s prime minister, Peter O’Neill. “The advocates can bleat all they want, they can protest all they want. Because of that, he said there would be an enduring need to keep the Nauru detention centre open. In November 2016 the Obama administration said the US would accept up to 1,250 refugees living on Nauru and Manus. Amnesty calls for release of refugee Loghman Sawari in Papua New Guinea Read moreThe refugees have the option of resettling in Papua New Guinea but few have agreed to do so.

Source: The Guardian April 09, 2017 01:26 UTC